Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy Empty Persons
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.10.2015
Verlag
RoutledgeSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,6/1,4 cm
Gewicht
383 g
Auflage
2. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4724-4645-9
’Siderits’s fusion philosophy replaces comparative philosophy, but this book transcends even his fusion philosophy.’ Chang-Seong Hong, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA ’Mark Siderits is one of the few philosophers in the world today who is equally expert in Buddhist philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy; who is as lucid and penetrating on ethical matters as on metaphysical ones; and who, as a scholar of Buddhist thought, can charitably discuss Abhidharma discourse with as much ease and insight as he can handle the themes of Mahayana philosophy. This book is especially valuable for its balanced treatment of these two major streams of Buddhist philosophy, the first half exploring - and extending - an Abhidharma approach to personhood and psychological reality, and the second half illuminating Mahayana approaches with a rare analytic clarity. Though balanced in its scholarship, the book is also stirringly provocative in its philosophical argumentation. Despite divergences between the two Buddhist traditions, Siderits highlights points of convergence, ones that he supports ingeniously with additional philosophical argument of his own. Already seminal in its first appearance, this second edition significantly refines the arguments and conceptual apparatus that Siderits uses to support his ecumenically Buddhist understanding of life, value and experience.’ Gordon Davis, Carleton University, Canada Praise for the 1st edition: 'Analytic philosophers should be awakened from their East-shunning dogmatic slumber by this seductive synthesis of vintage Buddhism, philosophical ingenuity and analytical rigour. In this path-breaking study in Buddhism-inspired analytic philosophy , Mark Siderits has critically reconstructed the intricate chain of arguments behind Buddhist reductionism and anti-realism about persons. ...Siderits establishes himself as one of those handful of contemporary philosophers of language who can handle Indian and Western materia
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